Worst Things About YouTube Rewind 2017

This makes me allergic to this YouTube Rewind - allergic to the desperation of trying to grab the attention of "da youths" on YouTube.

Fidget spinners were a trend that deserved to die a slow and painful death, and I'm so glad the meme is dead and buried. However, YouTube decided to attempt necromancy because they thought shoveling in several fidget spinners was more important than actually featuring YouTubers people care about.

Then again, I am talking about YouTube here.

So basically, YouTube is saying that if you are an overall obnoxious, insufferable person who makes videos that the vast majority of the public hates, mentally abuses women, and even disturbs the peace in your own neighborhood, you are a person to be celebrated and promoted as the face of the company.

But if you're involved in any kind of drama or have "controversial" topics on your channel, YouTube is out to get you. Drama from creators like iDubbbz, H3H3, or I Hate Everything is considered negative, while the Paul brothers' drama is something to look up to, I guess.

I did not recognize 90% of the people in this video. And the ones I did were there for like a split second! I kept thinking, "Who the hell are these people?"

Maybe it's because I generally don't see them around YouTube, probably because I don't watch vlogging "kid-friendly" garbage that's spewed out every day. PewDiePie wasn't in it, and he has the most subs. He wasn't even invited!

Name 10 people you recognized in YR2017. The animators were shoved into the credits, and everyone else in the video was from the most inoffensive and boring channels on the site.

Vines were never really good to begin with, considering it's just people doing stupid stuff for shock humor. The fact that ex-Viners get more recognition than more important YouTubers displeases me.

I'd rather have PewDiePie featured more than those so-called ex-Viners in any YouTube Rewind any day.

I hate Vine so much, and I generally dislike the majority of people who post garbage on it. With its shutdown, they moved to YouTube to produce their terrible content, which certain kids eat up for some reason beyond my understanding.

So they end up here, and it really bothers me.

He was in two controversies in 2017, but none in 2018, and he's still not in it.

I would have liked this better if Jon Sudano had been in it singing All Star. That would have represented the meme better.

Well, of course they are going to have those memes!

Thankfully, there wasn't too much dabbing, but there was still some, and it was incredibly irritating.

He dabbed into the grave. It's great.

The only good part of the video was when Big Shaq said mans not hot.

Like his maths, his appearance in YouTube Rewind was quick. It could have been longer.

I remember liking the whole Shooting Stars meme a few months ago. It was mostly all the Samurai Jack meme videos that kept popping up that introduced me to it.

Nowadays, this meme is dead to me. The song is still legitimately good, though.

I'll be honest, I liked shooting stars memes for a long time, but this video took it way too far, and it got annoying! Plus, it was in the wrong key!

It was like they pulled the dead body of the "shooting stars" meme out of its grave and said, "Live, damn you!"

Not even in that cheesy "holding hands" segment. I'm just glad they acknowledged the terrible things that happened. But, for Pete's sake, it was lazy!

They literally extended it this year for the segment about unity. Calm the hell down.

What was the point of the floor is lava in that video anyway? Oh, the one by RocketJump or whatever?

Such a small-scale meme. I don't even know how so much of it ended up in this cringe-fest when it wasn't even a great meme to begin with.

And they included Planking for some reason.

Ugh, the music! "Shape of You" isn't as bad as "Despacito." Luis Fonsi and his "hit of the year" will never stand the test of time because that song is going to fade away. Honestly, it can be said that "Despacito" can burn in hell.

Despacito is an extremely overrated song. I can't go a day without hearing the word Despacito or the song itself 4,849 times.

They were the most popular songs of that year. What did you expect? Some metal song no one knows about?

Cringeworthy, but not the worst. We got All Star here, but this whole scene is ironic because all the memes in this video have already died.

I think it's better that these random memes stay in the grave and never come out.

It was a creative twist, but it was just out of control.

In a year where we had games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, and Slime Rancher, there was NOTHING game-related. We had Vanoss, Markiplier, and Dashie showing up for a couple of seconds each, but that's it (and I think MatPat for half a second).

No PeanutButterGamer, no Chuggaaconroy, no Jacksepticeye, they didn't even ask PewDiePie to be in it!

2015 had an entire section themed around FNAF (which I don't even like, but I'll take it! It was a good segment).

2016 at least had a little Street Fighter bit.

2017, though? Nothing! Zip! Zilch! The big goose egg!

I'm not saying this should've been in the video, but the reason the dude was planking on top of a gravestone is because planking is dead. That's the whole point of the scene.

So although it may not have been funny, it made sense because that scene was the "dead memes" scene. Don't vote for this one. There are much bigger problems and things that make a million times less sense than this bit.

Planking is a really old meme. I don't know why it showed up in a "2017 recap" video.

I thought Planking died around 2009...

Exactly! The animators did the most work, but they each appear for like 6 seconds until the big slime fight at the end.

The animators were the best part, but it was only a minute long. Screw you, YouTube. You obviously don't know good content when you see it.

I agree. They put so much hard work into their animations, and YouTube just shoved them aside. It would've been amazing if they got a bigger role.

Yeah, I wish my favorite one, Jaiden Animations, got a bigger section in the middle, like in the floor is lava part. That would've been pretty funny.

Yeah, this was a problem. I understand they were trying to attract a lot of different communities, but they crammed too many unrecognizable people into such a short time frame.

It sucks because I don't watch any of the YouTubers in the whole rewind. It would be nice to see some underrated YouTubers.

This is what happens when the makeup studio and costume designers give up.